The Ontario government has announced an investment of $3 million in a virtual training hub run by Merit Ontario that aims to upgrade construction supervisors’ skills.

A new report issued by Cardus takes aim at community benefits agreements, arguing the need for reform to make the agreements better defined, less exclusionary and more measurable.

Several associations have written to procurement minister Anita Anand with concerns about changes to the way in which contractors and their workers are cleared to work on secure federal government sites.

Work at the station has been underway for 11 years at a final projected cost of $824 million. On July 27, Toronto Mayor John Tory reopened the Bay Concourse, which marked the end of construction at the country’s busiest multimodal passenger hub.

The federal government has announced combined funding of more than $31 million to support the construction of more than 120 rapid housing units in London, Hamilton and Kingston.